History
SBI Route 99 had been a route from West Point to Tennessee on local roads, Illinois Route 91, Illinois Route 61 and U.S. Route 136. In 1935 Illinois 99 was dropped from those routes. The next year, it replaced Illinois Route 104 on its current route; in 1941, Illinois 99 was extended north to Brooklyn.
Read more about this topic: Illinois Route 99
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action—that the end will sanction any means.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)